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C —Notice is hereby given, that by an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, persons are empowered to enter into COM POSITION the their ASSESSED TAXES for a period of Four Years, cowl - inning from the fifth of April, 1826, on giving notice of their intention to compound on or before the first of August, 1826 ; and persons now under Composition for their Assessed Taxes, are empowered to extend the period of their contracts to the fifth of April, 1830, upon giving notice of their intention be fore the first of May, 1827.—Printed forms, containing full in structions, have been distributed to the assessors and collectors of each parish, and to the Crown surveyors of each district, and I will be delivered by thsin to all parties making application for the same. By order of the Board, Office for Taxes, Somerset House, London, 6th June, 1826. E. BASE. FOREIGN LOTTERIES, 'PRIVATE LOTTERIES; LITTLE GOES, and RP.FILES. : • Lottery Office, SotrierAt-place, May 6, 1826. LOTTERIES being to 'END on.the 18th DAY of JULY :next, Noti' is hereby given, that the Laws , against the. Sale, or adve;tising for sAle,_ of Foreign Lottery, Tickets, or of any Lot!.ery Tickets net authorized 'by Par Va - thew and against I,ttle Goes and Private Lotteries, . w ill b e strictly enforced. It is requestr,:t that the outstanding Prizes may be brought in for paytry,nt, with the least possible delay, that the Lottery Accounts, may be finally closed. L. HESSE. LAST WEEK. ROYAL ACADEMY, SOMERSET-PLACE. NO'T'ICE is hereby given, that the EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY will finally dose TOAIOR ROUT, At Seven oclock precisely. Admission (every day from Eight o'clock till Seven), On. Sililling,...Catelogue, One Shilling. . . HENRY HOWARD, 11, A., See. Exhibitors are requested to send for their Wtrir.lo on. Tuesday the 11th, 'or IVednesday the 12th inst. I.CLARK'S GENERA L OUTFI T TING • WAREHOUSE,, for _the,. EAST and WEST . INDIES and SOUTH AMERICA, E 3 IIETER 'CHANGE; STRAND. Officers, Cadets, andArriters going to India, and Gentle. men proceefling to Sout' A America, or any other part :of the Globe, will find in d',..ta Establishment the whole of their Mili. tar) , Appointment Swords, Chacos, Sashes, Belts, Pistols, &c. together ,with a;targe and well-manufactured stock of Sea Cots, Couches, en..:t Bedding; Cabin Wash-hand 'fables, Clialra, and, Latnps ; Sea Chests, Mule and Bullock Trunks, and 'every other description of Travelling Equipage. AN ASSORTM ENT OF CANTEENS, r e a dy fitted witfi the necessary requisites for India, and other tropical climate, liktwise a great variety of Silver and Plated Articles, Knives and Forks, suitable. for families going abroad ; Military and Ilindostanee Books, Maps, &c. . . . . A FASHIONABLE STOCK of Carriage, Ciirricle, Tan. dent, Phonon, Stanhope and Chaise HARNESS, with every description of Saddlery, &c. &c. for home use, East anti West. Indies, and South America, which merit inspection from their excellent quality, first style of workmanship, and moderate prices. , . All the Articles in this Establishment are warranted, and the excellent plan of fifty years . standitig is still strictly adhered to, of asking but one Ready Money Price, from which no abate ment will be inade. TilE ACT o f PARLIAMENT is,PEREMP TORY. The Dissolution of Lotteries is fixed,- and must Cloie for ever on the 18th This Month. The general de mand throughout the Kingdom for a Farewell £30,000, in this, THE LAST OF ALL LOTTERIES, Cannot fail to raise the Price of Tickets and Shares considerably.._. an immediate purchase, is therefore, advised. The 'Scheme contains for the First, the 'Last, and only Time, zince the establishment Of Lotteries, SIX PRIZES OF £30,000, And every Ticket a Prize, ALL IN ONE DAT, TUESDAY, JULY 18th, (vas moran), • • When' all Lotteries End for Ever. Tickets andSbares are on Sale, at No. 4, cornhill, an d 9 , Char ing-Crose, London, the truly fortunate Offices of BISH, Who Shared and . Sold in the last Twelve Months, Five Prizes of .£30,006 ! Four of £21,000 ! Nine of .120,000 ! Besides numerous others of XIO,OOO ! 2,000 and 1,000, &o. Also, in the last Drawing, 3d of May, No. 1,883 B. - - £21,000! No. 5,8 $ - - Clair A. -- - £21,000! And numei our Minor Capitals ! SIIIPPItG INTELLIGENCE. h lA U am vs , MA Rcn EAST INDIA. ' 2 1:—Tha Cyprus, Todd, which sailed. th e 10th, i ns t. fur Vi put l Diemen's Land , ba ck the 15th March, leaky. AILEEVALS A'r TUE 111 AUEITIvo.--Th e Midas, Bagrie, from New South Wales, on the.lat March ; Leander, Richmond, from Portsmouth, the 14th ditto ; Ellen, Patterson, from the Cape, 6 e 15th ditto; Southworth, Embleton, front Portsmouth, 17th ditto; Felix, Perrott, from the Cape, the 18th ditto. SAILING S FROM THE MA U US. -...The Security, Ross, for N. South Wales, on the sth March. The William. Miles, Statitpson,' from Penang, off Portsmouth, sailed 15th February, and from St. Helena 9th May. Pasax)rotta era WiLuaat Mass..—Lieut. Carr, 65th Native Infantry, from Bengal. The Colombia, Wilson, from New South Wales, off Dartnroutb, sai led 6th March. Sul? SPOKEN. W1T11... 7 .11iS Majesty's ship Tamar, from Ran" goon to Bombay, on 25th' Feb. within three days of Bombay. AIL ikIP AL AT PENArtu.--Hill Majesty's ship Boadicea, COMMO.- iicre Sir J. Brisbane, from Rangoon, on 13th February. NE W Si L ondon 29th itnrrAprit W i1. atze.......T -les, he m an g Cogill, wa s t o sa il f or AitRIVALS AT New Sowell Wasats.-- Tonfkins, from N ew South Wales, the 17th F eb. e Sydney packet, ,• Manles, Co, fro m C or k, t h e 18th; Elizabeth, Rossi, from C hina , the 28th gill ; Leander, Leitch, from Liverpool; and Poekington, Jones, from th e sperm Fishery, the 28th; Toward Caltle, Jeffery, from Van Dietnen't Land, the Bth March. SAILING'S raolt NtW SOUTH WALILS......The Herbert, for Batavia, Oil the 8t Februar y ; Sir Godfrey W e b ster , lry ple,MOUttellifteer, h Reynoldson,the 13th for Singapore, the 10th; Venue, Ragout., for Port bafir. Paaaengers per Colombia, 'Wilson, from New South Wa1e.:.... Dr. Fairfewl, R.M. and Mr. Sperkes. SvioNsi Nzw SOUTH WALL S shIP , FXN. S....o ll Sunday l ast the *R4I4, Captain Wright, sailed for H o b art T own , on h er way to . England. FJCB. 11.—The ship Mountaineer, Captain Herbert, sailed an Wednesday last for Calcutta; also the Sir Godfrey Webster , Capt. Reynoldson. ee. 15..—0 n Monday last sailed for Port Dalrymple, Isle of Frames, and Cape of Good Hope, the brig Velltle, Capt. Kilgour. Pak 22.--On Saturday last arrived the shin Mangles, Captain Cogill; from Ireland, with 180 male prisoners, in good health-- losing only one on the passage, and he was halt dead when taken ea hoard. Pas. 25.—.00 Wednesday last sailed for Port Stevens, the brig I '" 1 Rodney, with a number of mechanics, labourers, Ike. and their families, belonging to the Australian. Agricultural Company, Mastim —Ol, Sunday last arrived the ship Elizabeth, Cape. Moo, front Canton ; the same day arrived the brig Leander, Capt. Laiteho from Liverpool, the terL of October. 4141t0tt4...The grab ship Caudry, Ca p t. NoYess sailed for Calcutta on Thursday last. SKETCH OF ATHENS. . - The women of Athens, although they may have been goddesses in ancient times, are by no means- handsome at resent, and are slovenly in their : dress, and walk with a stooping gait. The only period when a Greek female is beautiful is from fourteen to twenty years of age; their forms are then' often very graceful and sylph-like, and, their long black: hair, falling in loose and braided tresses behind, , be comes them admirably. B ut f rom t hi s time' their charms begin to fall away fast, and a Greek woman of a certain age is a being of marvellously few attractions—ignorant, and often of violent temper and passions, and in person disposed to enbonpnint. The beautiful lanthe, the being that the fancy loves to picture, full of genius and faseina, tion, and gliding with eager s t e p amidst the glorious ruins of her land, will :be looked for and sighed for in vain. There are thre . .el t idies a t A t h e n s , howevei, whose, real at , tractions . ' have been celebrated, as much as the Vampyte girl's imaginary ones—the three daughters of the Consul, Signor Logotheti—they aronow, 'even the one to. whom , the tender verses of Lord B. were addressed, strange to say, in a state of single blessedness. ...Mien the girl of Athens - is now in the sear and yellow la, iihti-ivaui 'the subject of the beautiful lines— " By those wildiiiyea, like the roe, ' Can I cease to love thee ? No." • She is the second daughter of the Consul, and still' the' hest-looking of the three; his Lord Ship was very fond of her conversation, and her attractions were probably derived more from the animation of her manners and sallies of wit than from any eminent personal charms, if one may judge from her present appearance;' though time makes sad havoc, and decay falls on beauty more swiftly in Greece than in England. The manners of these ladies are' pleasing, and their conversation, more intellectual than that of 'the rest of their countrywomen; they are often to be met with in the soirees at Athens—the few, at least, that are enjoyed amidst the general wreck and confusion of the times.' The Athenian women still Preserve< their excellence in the dance, 'ant in quickness of understanding, and facility of learning languages, th e y exce l. remar k a bl y; an d i n fickleness and inconstancy Of character also the same may be 'said of thein. The:house of Monsieur G-----s, tho banker at. Athens, was, before the Revolution brok e out, the most agreeable resort in Athens for travellers. His wife i'eas F it young and handsome Greek, and of a good 'figure, though rather short, spoke several languages, and conversed with great vivacity and shrewdness. A rich English merchant, WhO often visited at' the'house, where he met with the greatest hospitality, f e ll i n l ove with her; the , passion happened to' be • mutual, and 'Madame C{ s; 'begetting her husband and family, Athens Juld all its attractions and ass o c i at i ons fled with the tra y her to ConstantinoPle. Abandoned by - her husband, she experienced from her lover an unbounded generosity. A relative of the family followed him to the Turkish capital, and sent him a challenge to meet him in the " field of the dead," that immense burying-ground covered with cypress, that covers the hill a b ove P era . Th e tra veller was there at sun-rise, according to the appointment, but the challenger's courage failed him, and he never ap peered; the Englishman died, howeVee, not many months afterwards, of alever, and the lady new lives in COnstan tipople in very good style, in the enjoyment of an excellent income, and a sufficient circle of Greek acquaintance; for the very Greek relatives who abused and upbraided her at first, finding she possessed plenty of 'money, true to their supple and fieklo Character, soon flocked about her again, but without any censures or frowns. SMAEL GIBRALTAR, THE TURKISH ADMIRAL. This excellent Turk, lately slain by 'the. Greeks in a skirmish,' will be much missed by the English• travellers. 'He had a command in the Paeha of Egypt's fleet, and was remarkable for, his attachment to our' natien,. his splendid dtess, and his const an t goo d. nature 'and open-hearted manners. . A few years ago he was sent on some mission to England, and sailed in a Turkish frigate which he com manded from Constantinople; And after; a voyage of two or three months, for.it.was the longest and most perilous he had ever undertaken, he Arrived safely in the river.— On 'Reding, he.sought out a place Of tefreshment and rest, but with little hope of finding one suited to his Oriental taste;. and, after parading through several narrow and dirty streets, he, at last entered the Hog in Armour, in Wapping, and going into a parlour that was well car petted, and in whose chimney an excellent fire was blazing, he was quite delighted, and instantly squatted down on the floor, in hi s r i c h d ress ' o f li g h t b lue v e l vet, cashmere shawl, and 'Damascus sabre at his side, declaring he had no idea theGiaours were so well off. H,is long pipe, that was brought by one of his attendants was instantly in use, and the volumes of smoke, the coffee, and the various para phernalia, soon convinced the landlady that the stranger intended to Monopolize the whole of her apartment. The next day he got into a hackney-coach, and proceeded to present his letters of introduction at the west end of the town. The first was to the Duke of Kent, who, having heard much of Ti ma el' s character, received him with the greatest kindne ss , and, on his departure, asked at what hotel he lodged, that he might have the pleasure of calling on him, and showing him all those attentions he would stand in need of in London. Ismael replied . with the greatest simplicity that he was lodged at the Hog in Amour, where he should feel great pleasure in seeing his' Royal Highness. The' Duke smiled at the simplicity of thereply,and went early the followinKmorning his carriage the quarters of th e no bl e Turk, whom he and saw him i nsta ll ed in a more stylish, to moreofr bodily, com fer t abodeable • Rep esentative. i b f r o n u o g t h t -- THE TRAVELLER BURCKHARDTO--The tomb of this traveller is no way distinguished from the tombs of the Turks, amongst which it is placed; it was his dying request that no mark might he placed on it. A single palm-tree stands close beside where the ill-fated Sheick-Abraham, 44 he was c an e d, after his many hardships• and sufferings, sleeps in p eace . His only occasional companion survives him, and resides at Cairo, in the house of a renegide Scotchrnan ; she is an Abyssinian g i r l, whom h e purcha se d in one of his excursions into Nubia, in order that he might learn the Abyssinian language by residing with her. She is not handsome, as the females of her country are generally said to be, but her manners are lively and animated ; her temper, however, is extremely irritable. All the property left by the traveller she at present possess", and this amounts to ahout.2oo/. a h an d some fortune fu r a girl in Egypt. The hope of obtaining this sum has. induced many designing fellows of diff~ ferent f aith* tu -propose marriage to the relict of the ill-fated Burckhardt, but she has hitherto turned a deaf ear to all. The transition from slavery to independence, and such a fortune as two hundred pounds, has rendered her ar haughty and capricious as one , of the favourite sultanas of Mahmoud. She sometimes breaks out into fits of violent passion, that requires all the skill of the wary Scotelirnatt to soothe and propitiate ; she was born and brought up, as most of the nativwf her country, in the Catholic religion, or t barbarous imitation of it. But her landlord, Who says he was obliged, to save his life, to change his religion, and is now thriving being a C 4 tholic, and says h e wishes exceedingly fa st in it, feels st rong compunction about her to have her converted to the Protestant faith,, as b e l ook . forward pro b a bl y t o m y have her for his third wif e , h e h i d a l rea d y two, and not suffer her chattels to depart from under his roof. Burekhardt consigned her to. his care, with strong entreaties,f or the ki n d es t treatment, for he could, not endure the thought of leavin g her destitute • strange land. • eavmg a BENEFIT SOCIETIES, No. 2, The chief object of our former article on this sub ject, was to shew that although Friendly . Institutions were fraught with evils, ancd had been in many in stances rendered mischievous by error, they were nevertheless highly useful to the working clasaes,.and of a perfectly efficient nature to Savings BankS. The impropriety, therefore, of bringing forward the latter as a substitute fOr - the former, is conspicuous enough to a very superficial observer, and • the more, we enter into the merits of each, the more we are impressed With the necessity of their separate' application to the purposes for which they have originally, been designed. The Vriendly Society is at Once a Health Insurance, a Life Iniurance, and an Anquity Fund, Intended for the deposits of persons in middle or humble life. It is calculated to meet those exigencies, which more or lesS conic upon all men at va rious periods, aiid independently ,* its tendency to encourage the best. feeW4, provides a cer tap .and adequate assistance wiih - out the slightest de gradation to the receiver. - The Savingst . Bank will do done of this. - It is only a place of safe "deposit, in which any body may lay up money for accumulation until it is wanted for some emergency or whim. .No one can question the value of such an Institution— no one can dispute its utility ; but asserting it to be a substitute for a Benefit Society argues an ignorance of the subject, ,which is unpardonable from those who pretend to any knowledge of political economy, The following remarks are so applicable, that we cannot forbear to quote them from an anonymous pamphlet. " Will the advocates for Savings Banks be easily persuaded to save their annual premiums instead of insuring their houses against fire? certainly not : yet they recommend the mechanic to place his money in the bank, to provide against sickness and old age, whilst they know thatiiekness, like tire, !though somewhat slower in its operations, may in a short time exhaust the savings of fifty years, and, like fire too, may come suddenly before the first year expires. _ " The belt friends of the working classes will always entreat them to provide against the manifold wants of sickness and of old age, by means of respected and well-conducted Benefit Societies, the payments to which ought to form a part of their current and positive expellees ; to those who have any thing to spare after this, a Savings' Bank may be useful, the necessities of old age being first provided for by their club, the mechanic and,labourer, through the medium of the Bank, may be able to add comforts; but no individual, either befriend. hie neighbour or hie country by enjoining a reliance upon individual savings as a security against casualty, which may overtake a man in an. hour, and in a few months sweep away the savings of is whole life." It mat not be inferred from these remarks that we arc hostile to Savings Banks, we are only desirous to show that they are not capable of doing that which can be accomplished by Friendly Societies, and that any attempt i to encourage them at the expenee of those highly useful Institutions is perfectly .unjustifiable. Iu some future articles on this subject we shall notice the chief errors which operate.against Benefit Societies, and sugest improvements whi c h may be easily an d successfully adopted. , THE ARMY. . Detachments belonging to the 3d, 4th, 15 ith, and 14th tegi• meat' of Infantry, marched yesterday morning from Weeentinoter, for Chatham. .A Detachment belonging to the stb regiment of Foot marched yesterday morning from Westminster, for Weedon. A detachment belonging to the 4th Light Dragoons, marched yesterday morning from Westminster, for the Cavalry ,Depot at Maidstone. Detachments belonging to the 2d, 6th, 366, 41st, and 44th regiments of Infantry, marched yesterday mornhig, from West minster, for Canterbnry. Detachments belotiging . to the Bth and 21st regiments of Foot, embarked yesterday morning, on board a vessel in the river, tiir Scotland. A detachment of recruits arrived in town, on Wednesday, from i4cuthuni, on route to join their respective corps and depots. Who shall decide when Doctors disagree Ws have received the following solutions to the Enigma that appeared in the Sips an Tuesday last. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn--The Enigma in your Paper of the 4th inst. is the excla mation of a modern Dandy following a Donkey; whether the ex clamation be correct or not in all cases, I leave to your Readers to decide. JE SUIS CE QUE JE SUIS: Je sole ce que je anis,* • Mai. je ne anus pas ce que anis, Car el j'etois ce que je auis, • Je ne demis pax et que je anis. I am that which I am, But I am not that which I follow, For if I was that which I follow, I shoidd not be what I am. From the verb titre, to be. j• From the verb suivre, to follow. " UN OMBRE." 11.1 x. EDITOR, Ttirice I read your Enigma with care, And attempted the meaning to scan, Then threw down The Sun in despair. Just as wise as when . I began; When Lanra, (dear maid !) her efforts easay'd, And quickly her smiles her triumph displaysd ; " The brighter The Sun, " she exultingly said, " The stronger Me sha dow, more grateful the abade." Prive des rayons du Soleil, Le monde en delta, Perd son orgueil e ;— A' leur abri, tout devien• t sombre, Et tnontre votre enigroef—Un Ombre, THE POINT OF PRECEDENCE, OR \Vito YIELDS Floor ?—Two gentlemen, both on horseback, met each other in an extremely narrow lane, so narrow that it was impossible for them to pass, and the only alternatire wa.s, that one should hack out, and allow the other to get through. In common cases this would have been very easily arranged, hut, in the particular in stance to which we allude, it happened that the gentlemen were the . headai of two rival f am ili es , both equally proud, and equally jealous of the slightest approach on the part of either to the smallest superiority. The two gentlemen both checked their horses at the lame time, and each requested, in the politest and mo a t ceremoni ous manner passible, that the other would back out and leave the passage free. But, in the pokiest and most ceremonious man lier possible, they both refused to do any such thing, as this, on the part o f t h e i n di vidual ma ki ng the conmssion, would have b een considered a d egra d at i on su ffi c i en t to h ave made all his future life miserable. Both, therefore, kept their positions, and as the day was not far ad vance d, i t appeare d likely. th at th ey would continue to keep them for som e tune. One of the gentl emen too k at length . a newspaper Gann. his pocket (of cours e th e Edi n b urgh Observer), and beg an d e lib er ately to read it th roug h f rom the number at th e top of the first column , to the ' Printed for the Proprietors, on T uesdays and F r id a y . s,'• at th e f oot of the last. This occupied th ree or four hours , d u ring w hi c h t i me no symptom of impatience was ma n if ea t o d on either hand ; when he of the newspaper had neatly got through, his friend said, with the utmost calmuesa,—" Perhaps, Sir, when you have dolie, you will allow me a wild of your paper? " This was more th an fl esh an d bleed co l 4d beat; the Observer wee restored to the pocket, and its owner proceeded instantly to back out in a state of mind more easily imagined shalt deuribed,..4dinburgh Observer. LORD LYTTLETON. [From Reynolds's Life and Times.] " Speaking of the late Lord Lyttleton, and of the sin gular dream which preceded his death, Topham related to us the whOle story; but:Which, with its supernatural bird, white lady, awful prophecy, and fatal completion, has Since been so frequently and so variously detailed, that I cannot muster sufficient assurance to introduce it here; there fore will pass to,an event that is also connected with strangodeath of Lord Lyttleton,und which, though nearly I equally extraordinary, has, I believe, never been publish ed.. Of this event, Topham could speak with considerable certainty, as he was an eye-witness to the occurrence of the .principal circumstances; and which circumstances I afterwards heard . (more than once) confirmed by the party himself. " Andrews, imagining that Lord Lyttleton was in Ire land, with Lord Forteseue and Captain _O'Byrne, and wholly unconscious of the fatal prophecy * on the day pre ceding his. Lordship's death, proceeded' with his partner llr. Pigou, to their residence adjacent to their gunpowder mills, in the vicinity of Dartford. On the following even ing, being indisposed, he retired to bed at I I o'clock; his door was bolted, and he had a wax taper burning on' the hearth. 'Whether he was asleep or no, he never could de cide; , but he either saw, or thought he saw, the figure, of his friend Lord. Lyttleton approach. his bed side, wrapped in his long damask morning gown, and heard him exclaim, Andrews, it is all over with me.' I " So deeply was Andrews convinced of the reality of this appearance, that imagining that Lord Lyttleton had arrived at Dartford without his knowledge, and had walked into his room for the purpose of alarming him (a practice his Lordship was very fond of following), he ex postulated with the figure on the absurdity of the joke, and rising in his bed, was muck surprised to observe the( it Ilid . disappeared. Leaping on the floor, he - commenced an immediate search; behind the curtains, under the bed, j and around eVeiy'liart of the room, but no LordLyttleton was tole found. Then, proceeding to the Chamber-door, he perceived that it was bolted,ns.he had left it; but, still unconvinced, he rang his bell, and sternly desiring to be told the truth, inquired of Harris, his valet, whether. LordLYttleton had not just arrived, Thotigh the. servant (who had just retired to his bed-room), freqtiently re plied in the negative, yet Andrews persisted that he had seen his friend. However, after another vain search, and a repeated request fr,.ri Andrews 'that hiti Lordship would not be so foolish as longer to conceal himself, compelled at length to abandon his unsu ccess f u l attempts, h e aga i n retired to bed, though not to rest; for exactly-as theland of the clock on. the mantel piece pointed to twelve, he sate the figure of his friend again, but with a countenance sO altered, so pallid, so ghastly, that Andrews' alarm 'in creasing, he rang the bell, and vaned upon the whole fa mily, who, with great difficulty, at last composed him,and convinced him of his error. " In the morning at, breakfast, Andrews, in the pre sence of Mr. and Mr s . Pikon,•Topham, and various ' per sans, recapitulated all the p a rtic u l ars o f t hi s extraord i nary - occurrence, andin his own mind evidently•believed he had still seen Lord .Lyttleton. !(, When ;Andrews returned .to town on the following Tuesday, he found at his house in Gower-street, a letter from Lord,WestcOte, and another from Captain O'Byrne, informing him that Lord Lyttleton had died on the pre vious Saturday, at-midnight; the very night and the very hour, when he thought he had seen' the ghastly figure of his friend. others,' concluded Tophami' I leave the task of commenting on, or elucidating this singular transaction. I van only. add, that as you know, few Mall talk inore,and generally, more pleasantly,- -than Andrews'; but, for the space of two or thrfttitrtonths after. Lord Lyttleion's death, he would continue to sit,. during successive hours; mo. tionless, and absorbed in silence ; in fact, never speaking a word, but what r e l a t e d to t h e fo rego i ng mysterious event. " THE WEATHER. (From the Hertford journal of Wednesday.) AWFUL AND AFFLICTING CATASTROPHE. On Saturday a most melancholy event occurred at:Mal vern, equally distressing and appalling in its consequences, and Which suddenly converted a' scene of harmless festivity to one of the deepest and most heart-rending distress. A few ladies from this city, who were on a visit to some friends near Mal Vern, had a party fornied for their amuse ment to dine on one of the hills there, where a kind of summer-house is erected' for the accommodation of those who are induced to visit the spot, for the purpose of en joying the fine and extensive scenery it commands. The party comprised eight persons, ladies and gentlemen, and they had just set down to dinner, when suddenly a storm burst over the spot, a stream of electric fluid, attracted by the roof of the building, which was covered with iron plates, entered the apartment through a window, and in' an instant two of the patty, Miss Ellen Woodyatt, third daughter of Mrs. Woodyatt, of this city, and Miss Eliza Hill, eldest daughter of Mr. Hill, of Lintridge, were struck dead!! A sister of Miss Hill was likewise se verely injured, and another person of the party. slightly hurt. 'the escape of the rest was truly providential, as the different articles on the table were broken and dis persed hy the action of. the electric fluid. ' An inquest was held on Monday, at the Unicorn, Mal- vern, on the bodies of the two young ladies who were struck by lightning while taking refuge within a house on the Malvern Hills. After a short investigation, the Jury returned a verdict of "Died from the effect of lightning." (From the Cheltenham Chronicle of July 6.) Cheltenham was visited on Tuesday night by one of the most terrific thunder-stornis remembered for many years. The seeming warfare of the elements was indeed awful ; the peals of thunder, which were long, loud, and frequent, shook the houses to their very foundations ; and the flashes of lightning were vivid and continual, and could not fail to impress the most hardened-atheist with a deep sense of the nothingness of man, and 'of the power of the great Being who bade the thunder roar and light ning blaze. He who could not, during such a scen e , confi dently throw himself for protection upon the mercy of the King of Kings ' must, if possessed of any fe e li ng , h e wretched indeed. We are happy to state that we 'h ave not heard of any daMages resulting from the storm, but that, on the contrary,. it appears to have dime us material bethe air, which had been fo r severa l d ays ' exceedingly b n k coolingpppressive. following f rom C o . b v y en a tr Te y rn : o h — s atv'etce nwn d ous t h un der -storm, accompanied w i t h a (From the Worwichhire Chronicle of Wednesday.) l was visited T th h i i s s r t n n o o r r n n i il g ig r t e h e e e city i'ed of the C o v e n try deluging shower of min. It commenced about one o'clo c k, and for upwards of an hour the vivid flashes of the light. Wing t hinge two, o f the a elect u,ir.. i and the deafening peals of the thunder were N islx ver . e c al a fu r . e n l i es in s g , beyond description. against o s ti tfi t t r a tuheek quarterthe house as dow-shutter on the ground-floor, on th e east s i de of the building; it entered the premises, dashin g t o s pli nters t h e window and window-frame ; i t n ri c ivilluticihd Park-street,deseendetl and taking a torpendicular direction, forced its, way through the ceiling into the chamber above, where part of the family were at rest ; the window and frame here shared a similar fate with those below, several splinters, beat ir thrown on the bed of the terrified inmates. : The! t pr eeded i erosi e th i e- chamber, forcing large pielees,of ~ woo, and brick fretrr the- • wall, and entered 04 shopahoive, which Contained several regine-looms filled with From the appearance of this place: the electric matter' had •lost none of lies powei. In several places brick Were torn . from the wall with tre mendous violence, and considerable damage done to the looms. The destructive fluid afterwards made its egress through a window on the west side of the hoist, tearing out the window frame. A:young man, son to Mr. care less, who slept in the shop, 'terrified by the violence of the Storm, rose for the purpose of closing •the window as the, electric fluidentered. He was immediately :struck to the „ground, but, we are happy to stall . " received no further inirsonal injury:thastheing foi . iilitort time stunned. • He describes the sensation he experienced as similar to 'that. of a person' whose head was surrounded by a flame of fire. No other member of the family was injured." -A refreshing shower of about an hoer's duration fell here (Taunton) on Saturday last, but it was of no avail agriculture, and the Le n t and other crops, therefore, to in a very diimal plight. "The wheat, nevertheless, we are happy to state, looks surprisingly well, and entirely free from all injurious visitation. Since writing the abovm a bountiful she;.ver fell late last night, which, from its veil- • tinuance for several hours, must materially have benefited thecountry.--,-Thanion This city (Hereford), and various parts of the' county, have been visited during the last week with storms, of rain and hail, accompanied with thunder. On Saturday the rain was very heavy, the thunder tremendous ' and tlu lightning. extremely v i v id. Near Lugwardine, hailstones the Size' of Musket bullets fell. On Thuraday a hail-storm, the severest ever witnessed by the oldest inhabitant,lell at Luston, in this county.; some of the pieces of ice taken (from a ditch the next day, measured an inch and a half across. We regret that several hop-yards were injured by the hailstones, the wires being curt offend nearly destroyed On Tuesday, the 20th ult., about halfliast two 6'064' p.m., a heavy storm of hail and rain passed over Gross. 'mom,' accompanied with tremendous thunder and light ning. The electric fluid strucjc the chimney of a house oc cupied by Mrii Powell, a widow , who keeps a d a y- sc h oo l, the stones of ‘Vhich were forced out, and part fell into: the kitchen, where the mistress and l' or, -15 ehihten were sitting; fortunately they all escaped without injury, though many suffered severely from the effects of the fright, the visitation occasioned. No other damage wiet done, except to the upstairs windows ' which were broken, 'and an out-house adjoining 'W as • also injured A short sliatance from the town a n as h-t re e was shattered to pieces the lightning. In different parts of the kingdom, si milar visitations have taken plate, and many cattle, &e. killed by the lightning.—HerefOrd Journal. 'The folloWing singular :effect was produced during the late thunder-atorm at Ashton-under« Line :--40 a field be longing to. Mrs. Chadwick, of Park-hall, an oak '11 , 4 struck by the lightning, and partly divested,of its bark and branches. The fluid appears to have penetrated near the top of the tree, and its course downwards is directly' marked in a narrow stripe of the wood, which is divested of its sap, and has its texture completely destroyed, heing converted into 4 soft spongy substance, resembling .*a de cayed willow. Close to the root is a circular orifice in the earth, about two inches in diameter, indicating the spot where the subtle eleMent entered and was absorbed. 'Last Saturday morning the inhabitants of this town (Derby) were refreshed by some fine rain. It had been so long wished for, that, though it commenced between two and three o'clock, almost every individual was alive 'to the grateful change of the weather, and many persons rose from their beds, and stood at their windows to wel come the falling shower. It continued for nearly two houra, and in the course of the day the rain fell in abun dance. We have reason to believe it extended a consi derable distance, and in some places amounted to a storm. The lightning was very vivid, and the thunder was heard in loud arid long-continued peals all around Derby ; .but no damage was occasioned by the storm in this immediate neighbourhood. Near Belper, however, the elemental strife Wat 3 much augmented, and the hail fell in a prodi gious shower of stones, many of which were of large di mensions. One of these, when measured, gave a circum ference of' six inches. In the neighbourhood of South Wingfield also the storm was very violent, and did consi derable damage by the breaking of hot-house and other windows. We have not, however, heard of any fatal ac cidents from the lightiiiug, and the benefit of the rain to a large district of parching country has been most season able and important.. On Wednesday we had another fine shower, accompanied with lightning and very loud thun der. The rain continued till near five, and has penetrated to the roots of the potatoes, which were wanting this supply of moisture. The grass lands and th e corn crops will be much 'impro ve d lay it; we have great ho.pea that its extent has be e n cons id era bl e, and a still farther supply 'may be expected from the appearance of the clouds, the direction of the wind, and the falling state of the barometer.-----Derhy Mercury. During the storm on Tuesday se'nnight a piece of Lu cerne belonging to Mr. Chatfield, of Hove, wax scorched by . the lightning in a very singular manner ; and a piece of rye was nearly destroyed by the hail. In the green house of Mr. Tamplin there were upwards of 400 panes of glass broken.—Brighton Gazette. Owing to the dry weather the hay this year is very light, and as poor a produce as. we have had -for several years past. Pasture-grounds arc also very s bz pl t i . e u d p . , s l o v t a t t ea is ttl i e n m e a a y r, 4 , e nd co a ti p s i i , d e e a r r e s d v ve ei r s to pari e r : va i l ly: some of it is in blossom. With regard to the wheat crop there is no cause to boast, as in some places it is partly foxy, and appears very stinted, and from the present cora, plexion, the wheat does not promise a good average crop, although a very early one. Bear and barley has m some places been already reaped, and seems "a tolerably good crop. Oats seem quite short. and in ear, so that the reapers must prostrat e th emse l ves i n a very humble atti tude to secure this valuable crop. Flax m general pro mises indifferently. New potatoes are in some places being dug up, but we have no great cause to boast of their quantity or quality'. Oats, grass, and flax,, semi to be the three worst descriptions of vegetation. If this till Weather continues Muth longer, it may be feared that other Crops. will share the came fate. Present appear-, aitces afford but a bad prospect of an abundant crope."- 4PatetArd Pa pen SAGACITY 011 7— A 130T.-7AToung woman, soh jfreoetmtoGneoeeasigeirst:la.leell:earir)itotuint aberrations th w e ee ntn a d, ag at o r , a) it t ix d„ on a i fter rani m o r - o dl h , two children and a Rutin water spaniel. The two ehikl,ren were found, after an anxious search; about one o'clock next l"rt'ing in the Moikleriggs moor ; no trace of th e young w oman could be discovered, and it was remarked as something strange that the dog should have attached itself to her in prefere", e to thelive a°, with whom it was intimately acquainted. Tue Parent/ 'Were inue4 concerned about her, and hail Pew" in ver :::: l e ir as e : i° :: i lo ts ok sa in g g ac e i ft ty 7 d h e e e r i . red l t h ien e muster of t tlg ir a i ° l i n t a ' e . s in g aware of wo w take care she should recei ve be was confident that the dog ti"'enrioernt:i;e6rainnuldlingtwahillilit°eilair:lii:t!do:aswit:luteoC4lntifelsewrs"""HitnitettilievFlp:ltial flea dog next., received t nbeturntrottingulnn until sahwele)a"gww:tl:7, Was safely 610 at bar own fire.aide....Paistry Advertiser.